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I didn’t even know that it was a problem that existed until I saw a bottle of women’s hair loss treatment cream in my mom’s medicine cabinet. It was Minoxidil, just like I’ve seen advertised for men, but made specifically for women. I’ve always heard about male pattern baldness and I’ve obviously seen countless examples of it, but I’ve never in my life seen a bald women. I guess women are more careful, or care more about their appearance so they seek out effective solutions for their hair loss problem, unlike the hoards of men who do nothing but let nature take its course. This has really got me wondering; I’ve heard that baldness is hereditary. When my father passed away at the age of seventy with a full head of hair I figured that I was in the clear, but if my mother is losing her hair does that mean that I’m not quite out of the woods yet, that I still might end up losing my hair. Can the baldness gene be passed down from a mother to her child, or is baldness in women caused by something that can’t be passed on. I want to ask her when it started or if she knows what is causing it, but I don’t want to make her feel uncomfortable. She hasn’t told me anything about it so maybe she wants it kept a secret. I guess I’ll just start looking for excessive amounts of hair in the shower drain and worry about it then.